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Dowding is Scottish. (He is also British). That is his nationality. Wallie ( talk) 11:05, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
Please discuss. Wallie ( talk) 15:48, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
How does one nominate an article for 'article of the day' or similar? This is very very good.
This article really ought to have more detail on his work before WWII in virtually creating the Fighter Command of 1940. E.g. it briefly mentions that he 'favoured' radar (or some words to that effect), but he had much more of an active role in its creation and uptake than that, as Air Member for Research and Development in 1935, where he undertook to fully fund the work immediately after the Daventry test, which led to the creation of Bawdsey. And his role in the acquisition of the 8-gun monoplane fighters was also very large.
I don't think it's too gilding the lily to say that he first created the tools, then from 1936 forged them into a integrated system (the warning and command-control system of Fighter Command), and finally commanded it during the most important battle of WWII.
I am a bit too busy to do this at the moment, but if nobody else steps up, I can do it - I have all the right references (all the Dowding/Fighter command books; all the early radar books by Bowen, Watson-Watt, etc; a good collection of Spitfire/Hurricane books, etc). Noel (talk) 18:03, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
Did the book, "Twelve Legions of Angles" have anything of importance in it? As the British government suppressed it until after the war, it would appear that it did. I Goggled it, but didn't find much.-- TGC55 ( talk) 17:55, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
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The image doesn't match the description. The blazon describes a falcon and a flier-de-lis, neither of which are present. I propose deleting the image until a better one can be found. Richard75 ( talk) 23:47, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
After the Battle of the Somme, Dowding clashed with General Hugh Trenchard, the commander of the RFC, over the need to give pilots some rest and recuperation.
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Dowding is Scottish. (He is also British). That is his nationality. Wallie ( talk) 11:05, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
Please discuss. Wallie ( talk) 15:48, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
How does one nominate an article for 'article of the day' or similar? This is very very good.
This article really ought to have more detail on his work before WWII in virtually creating the Fighter Command of 1940. E.g. it briefly mentions that he 'favoured' radar (or some words to that effect), but he had much more of an active role in its creation and uptake than that, as Air Member for Research and Development in 1935, where he undertook to fully fund the work immediately after the Daventry test, which led to the creation of Bawdsey. And his role in the acquisition of the 8-gun monoplane fighters was also very large.
I don't think it's too gilding the lily to say that he first created the tools, then from 1936 forged them into a integrated system (the warning and command-control system of Fighter Command), and finally commanded it during the most important battle of WWII.
I am a bit too busy to do this at the moment, but if nobody else steps up, I can do it - I have all the right references (all the Dowding/Fighter command books; all the early radar books by Bowen, Watson-Watt, etc; a good collection of Spitfire/Hurricane books, etc). Noel (talk) 18:03, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
Did the book, "Twelve Legions of Angles" have anything of importance in it? As the British government suppressed it until after the war, it would appear that it did. I Goggled it, but didn't find much.-- TGC55 ( talk) 17:55, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
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The image doesn't match the description. The blazon describes a falcon and a flier-de-lis, neither of which are present. I propose deleting the image until a better one can be found. Richard75 ( talk) 23:47, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
After the Battle of the Somme, Dowding clashed with General Hugh Trenchard, the commander of the RFC, over the need to give pilots some rest and recuperation.